The duo's relationship at Nine soured over headlines McGuire had asked during a meeting, over a discussion about sacking Rowe, "When should we bone her?"

He later denied using the term, saying "I may have said 'burned'."

Rowe later called the media circus during her stint at the network "horrific".

"That year was a terrible time in my life and it was not helped by public abuse, abuse from within the network that I worked at, and abuse from someone who was in charge of that particular network," she said on Studio 10 last year.

Rowe is the latest prominent TV personality to brush off interest in the Today co-hosting role left open since Lisa Wilkinson's shock departure last month.